No you can get away with out it and do it by hand, the shoes need to be adjusted to have a very slight drag on the drum when adjusted correctely.

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There is quite a bit of back ground noise so its hard to tell for sure but so if you getting noise its most likely a wheel bearing noise. If im hearing it correctely it sound like a bearing as it seams to change with speed.

dam, this sucks to just have everyone saying, it is possible for everything to be causing this.how can i really find out what it is without having to replace part by part. someone also told me that wheel bearing noise is more of a roar and not a whine.

I would start by checking the wheel bearing for roughness and if it feel nice and smooth with no noise then yes suspect the differential bearing. You are correct, a wheel bearing will usual roar. and not squeel.

You may not hear any noise with no load on the axles but if the bearing was bad you should feel some roughness. It would be very had to mess up bearings installing a drive axle. You might also want to make sure the CV axle nut wasnt over tightened.

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